Guild Wars 2

Just a small question… did they remove all good stuff from chests or what? i did 7 20+ fractals after patch and didnt get single yelow reward from chest, only few droped from trash mobs.

they did it not this patch but the patch before, nerfing chest fotm drop noticeably.

Its clear that fotm is a waste of time if you go there for reward…and after last patch even for fun.

and basicly if u wont get from daily reward chest amulet or accesory, but just rings.. then is realy a waste of time now. is sad they introduce a grinding dungeon but u get no reward from it… and those pristine relics… realy? just rings there too? nice.

And im still fotm 2, when(if) i reach 20 theres no loot

loot is:
-ascended rings (high drop rate)
-chance to have an ascended weapon (very low drop rate like 1/25)
-token/mats for a free ascended backpack (crafting one have no point)

If you play fotm for gold you’d better do any other activity.

There are rare occasion you drop exotic items but they are account bound and mostly magic find so they are worthless…even less than dungeon tokens.

You seldom happen to drop non account bound exotic skins…..quite rare also like zed set for example or glimmerfang to tell a couple that Worth something.

At least you drop some T6 mats consistently…(each type of them depending on fractal you get).

No idea what the point was behind destroying a new dungeon which introduced a new tier of gear.

Can’t even think of one positive.

LordByron.8369:

loot is:
-ascended rings (high drop rate)
-chance to have an ascended weapon (very low drop rate like 1/25)
-token/mats for a free ascended backpack (crafting one have no point)

If you play fotm for gold you’d better do any other activity.

There are rare occasion you drop exotic items but they are account bound and mostly magic find so they are worthless…even less than dungeon tokens.

You seldom happen to drop non account bound exotic skins…..quite rare also like zed set for example or glimmerfang to tell a couple that Worth something.

At least you drop some T6 mats consistently…(each type of them depending on fractal you get).

- Fractal weapons are NOT ascended, they don’t even have stats. They’re account bound skins meant for transmutation and nothing else.
- Ascended rings don’t have a “high drop rate”, you can only get them from the daily chests.

The fact that Ascended accessories and amulets cannot be obtained through Fractals (the one place that the gear is required for progression) is a complete and utter joke. To make matters worse, the new rings can’t be infused.

It is also silly that no new fractals have been added, yet the system is perfect for adding new content. New fractals don’t need to abide by any lore (the Mists did it!) and they can be really short.

One note maybe : stop skipping mobs in fractals, especially if you’re looking for gold/loot and not that much for a 46th ring or relics. Especially mobs at lvl20+ drop quite a bunch of rares and exos, that are NOT soulbound.

I’m thinking about mobs in the jade fractal, wolves and svanirs’ sons after the elementals, etc. Wolves for examples have already given me 2 named exotics : Skybringer and some staff-of-ember, and one mob in the jade fractal just gave me a named pistol.

TL;DR : Quite a bit of money in fractals is made on normal mobs that too many groups skip to get the chests. I would advise stop skipping mobs that are worth the time.

the above should one of those few blessed by rng players.

As i said they rarely drop one ACCOUNT BOUND trash magic find exotic.

I drop 5 non bound exotic out of 1000+ fractals (i lost count after 1000 lot of time ago).

Wolves were skipped mostly due to the fact they had their loot tables removed for a long time.

About jade fractals i almost never skipped due to people wanting to do them

They drop so bad as % that you’d better as i said do anything else with the time you save.

They drop lodestone?
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something like 2 out of 150+ dailies…….i would’ve bought 10 times doing something with a guaranteed drop.

On a side note what they really drop are tier 5 venom that are quite good for crating things to break for ecto….

But now ecto is inflated.

I’ve noticed that the Fractal daily chests are garbage now. People that run Fractals want rings (if you don’t have enough..) or Fractal Weapons which I want since most FOTM skins are better than Legendaries, my opinion. Months and months of dailies in, two weapons. Other players have a lot more than that and it’s beginning to aggravate me and my party off. Another Arena Net “update” where they make the players work harder for what they want through all the chaos they have barricaded us in.